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News for the Waking GenerationTue, 18 Dec 2018 20:24:48 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.9REPORT: Syrian Army’s ‘an Airport for an Airport’ Policy to Counteract Israeli Aggressionhttps://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/18/report-syrian-armys-an-airport-for-an-airport-policy-to-counteract-israeli-aggression/
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/18/report-syrian-armys-an-airport-for-an-airport-policy-to-counteract-israeli-aggression/#respondTue, 18 Dec 2018 15:28:52 +0000https://21stcenturywire.com/?p=12329821WIRE + SouthFront | Syrian Armed Forces have adopted a new policy of response to further acts of aggression by Israel.]]>According to a new report by the Kuwaiti Al-Rai newspaper, Syrian Armed Forces have adopted a new policy of response to further acts of aggression by Israel.

A high-ranking Syrian official summarized the policy by saying “this means that a strike on an airport in Syria will be met with a strike on an airport in Israel and so on.” (Screengrab/SouthFront)

The decision to enact such a policy comes just three months after Israel launched airstrikes on Syria over Latakia – resulting in the accidental downing of a Russian Il-20 military plane, shot down by Syrian Air Defense systems. The Al-Rai report added that Russia has given Syria the ‘green light’ to pursue the new rules of engagement.

START – Brexit: plan F – a managed No Deal…? Britain has a new Swiss trade deal – UK gold exports to Switzerland surge… Financial deregulation on the horizon…? HBO’s Brexit series trying to produce a narrative – Cumberpatch is a remainer This is calculated, targeted, political marketing propaganda The propaganda machine begins: who is Christopher Wylie…? Brexit and US Presidential election both fixed by…the Russians UCL Constitution Unit: various trigger points for a second referendum Brexit: online campaigning to be controlled…? Social media companies overwhelmingly supports one political system ideal The ‘one world’ viewpoint is the only acceptable system…?20:54 – Yemen: US wishes to end support for the war in Yemen 21 Wire article: US Senate votes on Yemen as brutal proxy war rages on UK government no mere bystander in Yemen war, it’s an active player Israel also under scrutiny for annual foreign aid payments from the US Documentary recommendation: The Lobby – USA on electronicintifada.net31:48 – Ukraine: Poroshenko announces split from Orthodox Church Ukrainian elections due next year… Third NATO visit by senior Ukrainian politician inside a week Integrity Initiative was set up to frame Russia – Ukraine to be used as excuse Moon of Alabama and Sputnik are also covering this subject closely The Times: blatant disinformation on show – Russia again…? No evidence provided to back up claims (again) – just blame Putin44:40 – The Economist (a Bilderberg attendee): The World in 2019 How to control social media globally…actual democracy is not important Is full control of social media actually possible…? Social media now has a global audience so outside influence is inevitable Misdirection: get people to look one way while something else is happening Social media competition is on the rise…

]]>https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/17/uk-column-brexit-integrity-initiative-us-senate-yemen-resolution-the-world-in-2019%e2%80%b2-with-guest-mark-anderson/feed/0EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Beeley Interviews Yemen’s Ministry of Health Spokesperson, Dr Youself Al-Haderihttps://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/17/exclusive-vanesssa-beeley-interviews-yemens-ministry-of-health-spokesperson-dr-youself-al-haderi/
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/17/exclusive-vanesssa-beeley-interviews-yemens-ministry-of-health-spokesperson-dr-youself-al-haderi/#respondMon, 17 Dec 2018 14:48:42 +0000https://21stcenturywire.com/?p=123169Vanessa Beeley | The Yemeni people are being deliberately starved and deprived of humanitarian aid by FUKUS, the UN and Saudi coalition.]]>22 million in Yemen are dependent upon aid to survive, according to an ICRC (Red Cross) tweet.

The “humanitarian” tragedy in Yemen has been in the news a lot recently. What most media and NGOs fail to clarify is that this is not some mysterious “famine” that has organically transpired as a result of a war – the Yemeni people are being deliberately starved and that starvation is aided and abeted by the UN and a number of its agencies via the illegitimate Resolution 2216 that should never have been adopted in the first place.

Many have applauded the recent senate vote that appeared to favour debate over the potential U.S withdrawl from Yemen but more astute observers and analysts picked up on the cynical use of the “Farm Bill” to obfuscate and bury the real intention to remain in Yemen:

UN chief, Antonio Guterres has been congratulating himself on “progress made” in the recent Yemeni peace talks in Sweden. An alleged ceasefire was negotiated between Ansarullah (Popular Resistance movement) and the Saudi-backed “rebels”. However, a recent tweet from Yemeni journalist, Hussain Albukhaiti, has revealed that this claim by the U.N is another red herring:

On Friday 14th December I put some questions to the Yemen Minstry of Health speaker, Dr Yousef Al-Haderi.

Vanessa Beeley: Thank you so much for giving your time to answer my questions. The first must be, in your opinion, what is the war in Yemen about and where will it end?

Dr Yousef Al-Haderi:Since the first revolution in Yemen on 26 September 1962, these great powers in the world have managed to contain the Yemeni people politically, intellectually and economically so they did not fight us as they have during this ugly war. They enslaved us and ruled us through their puppet presidents.

Yemen’s geographical location, the third best in the world, and Yemen’s rich resources, oil, gas, rock, agricultural and fishing abundance and diversity of landscape should make Yemen one of the world’s wealthiest countries but this has not happened because of this policy of “making us poor to keep us under control”.

The movement that originated in norther Yemen, Saada, called Ansar Allah or as western media like to say, the Houthis, rose out of the poorest societies and it identified the root cause of Yemen’s poverty – the American system and that is why they adopted the slogan “death to the American regime. Their revolution which succeeded on 21st September 2014 then provoked American agents in the region, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to try to persuade the new government in Yemen, represented by Ansar Allah,to continue the mercenary path of dependence upon the U.S that had been taken by former presidents in Yemen. The Ansar Allah movement and leadership rejected this move completely.

When the global powers, represented by the American, British and Saudi regimes saw that the Ansar Allah movement was able to eradicate all the terrorist entities in Yemen, such as Al Qaeda, which previous Yemeni regimes had been unable to achieve, they sensed the threat that the Ansar Allah movement represented for their colonial projects which had been supported by the deliberate planting of these terrorist groups and they launched the aggression against Yemen on 26th March 2015.

The Saudi-led “Operation Decisive Storm” was launched by the former Saudi Ambassador to Washington (current Saudi Foreign Minister) Adil Al-Jubair from inside the White House. On the first day terrible massacres were carried out among the children of Yemen, one of them in the north of the capital, Sana’a (Bani Hawat) and in the middle of the capital. The same night, children and civilians were deliberately targeted in their homes as they were sleeping. Twenty three days later on the 20th April 2015, a powerful neutron bomb was used in Sanaa and every area of the city was bombarded. Thousands of homes were destroyed. All of these crimes were committed with U.S endorsement and support.

The endgame is clear. After the Saudi coalition was able to bring down a number of Yemen’s provinces in the south – a campaign that was characterised by chaos, murder, assassinations, terror and fear – as witnessed by international NGOs and journalists. We witnessed the establishment of dozens of secret torture and detention centers, similar to those established by the U.S in Iraq, the Abu Ghraib prisons. Even those who support the U.S and its Saudi coalition could not return to Aden, they were refused entry by the U.S Saudi Emirates. The Island of Socotra and the province of Hadramaut were occupied by the U.S. The provinces to the east of Yemen on the border with Oman were occupied by Saudi proxies and forces to open a channel for its oil to the Arabian Sea in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. The Yemeni people living there experienced deepening hunger, poverty and disease, they received no benefits from this occupation.

Today, we are nearing the end of the fourth year of this aggression, which has been mobilised by all the most powerful countries of this world, all the resources of this world and all the armies of this world using all the weapons at their disposal. Weapons that are internationally probhibited like U.S and U.K supplied cluster bombs. We can say that the war will not end until the alliance of aggression breaks down and the Saudi regime collapses. The alliance has attempted to weaken us with every weapon in their arsenal – bombing, starvation, disease, cholera, terrorism, diptheria, malnutrition, malaria – but they do not understand that we will not yield until Yemen is free, we will never surrender even if they occupy our homes and lands.

The cessation of this aggression depends entirely upon the vigilance and humanity of the peoples of this world, not upon their criminal governments who profit from our suffering.

VB: Do you have any hope in the current peace talks in Sweden?

Dr YaH: There is no hope in the current peace conversation, and the reason is that the other side did not come to dialogue with us, but sent their mercenaries who not have the ability to make decisions. They do not even have the right to return to their country while they claim they “liberated” which translates as an occupation. When we have American, Saudi Arabian and the UAE government representatives at the same table with Ansar Allah, we will be able to say there is hope.

VB:Most people in the West have been sold the idea that fugitive/resigned former President Mansour Hadi is the head of the interationally recognised government in Yemen.You are the Health Minister of the current, constitutionally elected Yemeni government.Please describe the government in situ. Does it have popular support? Why will the international community not recognise this government?

Dr YaH: I am the official spokesman of the Ministry of Health in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, which was formed constitutionally through the Constitutional Council of Representatives, which is still in Sana’a, which is more than the quorum. I believe that the continuation of the international recognition of the Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi as president of Yemen is due to American and Saudi money and the ruling of the United Nations. Hadi presented his resignation on January 19th 2015 and that was preceded by the end of his presidency of consensus on 21st February 2014. His presidencey was extended by one year but he was never constitutionally elected. For me, there is no legitimacy for those who will murder their own people, besiege and starve their own people. He destroys his own people upon instruction from the U.S and the Saudi coalition.

Everyone can see that the entities that promote American hegemony are effectively besieging or killing their own people or putting economic pressure upon their people or simply ensuring the spread of chaos in their country. We see this in Yemen, Syria, potentially in Iran and North Korea among many others. Unfortunately most of the world is subjected to the devastation brought about by American hegemony in varying degrees. The U.S believes, it alone can determine who or what is legitimate or illegal. “Legitimacy” must be determined by the people of sovereign nations not by external and predatory forces.

Hadi’s internationally recognised government has been living, for four years, in the luxury hotels of Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo and Istanbul. It does not exist in Yemen, even in those areas it claims to have “liberated”. It can never go back to Yemen. Our government in Sana’a is recognised by the people of Yemen. It brings stability, freedom and justice. There is no suppression of doctrinal, sectarian or partisan considerations at all.

The number of people living in the areas of Yemen occupied by the Saudi coalition does not exceed 25% of the 27 million Yemenis. 75% live in the areas controlled by the Sana’a’s government and the popularity of this coalition government is evident in the fighting fronts and popular support. They are supported by religious and national factions alike and there is a marked absence of public rejection or uprising against them – something which is a common occurrence in the provinces of the coalition-occupied south.

VB:Does Iran recognise the Yemeni government? Why has Iran not taken a more active role in defending the rights of Yemenis diplomatically?

Dr YaH: Unfortunately the Iranian government has not done enough against the injustice that is the aggression against Yemen. We find more popular support from the American people than from the Iranian government. They refuse to recognise the Sana’a government in terms of diplomatic support and to be honest Iran’s inaction effectively supports the humiliation of Yemen by the International Community. The Iranian media support covers only economic or humanitarian aspects of the conflict and never addresses the root causes. We have never received any support from Iran even though we would always maintain that the Iranian people are just as humane as the American people and all peoples who stand with the Yemeni people against their global oppressors.

VB: Has Russia played a role in Yemen since the Saudi coalition aggression began in March 2015?

Dr YaH:The Russian regime, like the American regime, has special objectives in Yemen and in the Middle East in general. There is an exchange of roles between the two superpowers in the world, in Syria and in Yemen. Russia adopted resolution 2216 without using the veto. This reflects the extent of its complicity. Russia welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the 20th summit in Argentina despite the discovery of his crimes against Yemen and against the Saudi journalist Martyr Jamal Khashoggi.

VB: How many children have died of preventable diseases since the conflict began, because of the blockade on food and medicine?

Dr YaH:The statistics that I will list for child mortality are not complete as the Ministry of Health is unable to record accurate figures due to specific issues. There are many children who die silently – they die in their homes after their parents were unable to provide them with hospital because of poverty, siege and lack of money, just for example.

Malnutrition: – 2,300,000 children (less than 5 years) with 1:3 suffering from a type of malnutrition, including 400 thousand children with severe acute malnutrition, one child dies every ten minutes (according to UN reports And the World Health Organization).

2890 Yemeni people have been infected with diphtheria since its re-emergence (October 2017 to date), of whom 169 died, children represent 90% of these statistics.

Cholera and associated diarrhea: – About 1357,998 Yemeni people have been affected during the period 27 April 2017 to date, of whom 2678 died, children represent 70% of those deaths.

Malaria and dengue: – There are about half a million Yemeni people suffering from malaria and 30 thousand died from the disease, the majority are children.

130 medicines needed to treat chronic diseases and life saving medicines are not available in the Ministry of Health because of the economic blockade and the closure of Sana’a airport since 8 August 2016 until today. These drugs include kidneys, renal dialysis, cancer, diabetes, thalassemia, heart, epilepsy. Tens of thousands have died as a result of the lack of these medicines, the majority are children.

Since the closure of Sana’a airport on August 8th 2016 until today, some 200,000 Yemenis have been unable to travel abroad to receive appropriate medical treatment that is not available in Yemen. So far, 28,000 patients have died, 40% are children.

A 12 years-old Abdullah is 11 kilogram little more than the average one year old, despite his family is too poor but they spent the little money they have trying to save him.Millions of #Yemen's children can't be treated because their families in desperately poor#YemenCantWaitpic.twitter.com/8aHmnQEu0Z

VB:Have attempts to import necessary lifesaving items been delayed or denied entry and by whom? Could you give an example of those items?

Dr YaH: Oil and basic foodstuffs and 120 pharmaceuticals have been banned from entering Yemen except through very complex conditions and only by the sea not through Sana’a airport which is closed. Because of the U.N Verification and Inspection mechanism imposed on ships entering Djibouti port, medicines remain blockaded there for months and many medicines will have perished by the time they finally enter Yemen, if at all. Wheat, for example, will be rendered inedible after storage in high temperatures. The procedures do nothing more than add cost onto the items for the already poverty-stricken civilians. The closure of Sana’a airport and the transferral of the National Bank to Aden (from Sana’a) also have a negative effect. For kidney treatment, for example, Sirolims, Ticrolims, Brucraf, Salsypt, Kidney Dialysis, Insulin etc we can only provide enough for 5% of patients through international organisations.

VB:How are the 5000 (or more) kidney patients coping bearing in mind they are unable to receive the necessary dialysis?

Dr YaH: Eight thousand dialysis patients receive the lowest weekly washings (2 washings each week), although it should be minimum 3 washings per week, and instead of 5 hours per wash, we do only 3 hours (to create time for the rest of the patients) Where dialysis machines work 24 hours / 7 days – 4 dialysis centers have been closed by the Saudi bombardment. 27 centers are still functioning but we are unable to provide equipment or to repair devices thanks to the blockade. We struggle to have enough of the washing solutions. If we did not have the cooperation of some international organisations and the help of Yemeni society, we would have witnessed another humanitarian catastrophe. Even so, we cannot cover all needs and 1200 patients have died of renal failure as a direct consequence of the blockade.

VB:Does it still apply that any surgeries for cancer will be performed free of charge?

Dr YaH:In Yemen, there is no health insurance for citizens at all. Health care is charged for even in public hospitals although the payment is less than in private hospitals. This was one of the main reasons for the uprising in September 2014. The new Minister of Health, appointed in June 2018, introduced a policy to reduce the pain and suffering of patients, especially those with cancer and they have access to free procedures in public hospitals in Sana’a. A new law has also been introduced which will enter into legislation in 2019 – the Fund for the care and treatment of cancer. We hope that this will go some way to relieving the suffering of cancer patients.

VB: How many hospitals remain operational across Yemen?

Dr YaH: In areas governed by the Sana’a government, 79 hospitals provide health services to 75% of Yemenis (24 million Yemenis out of 27-30 million) and 2,000 health centers throughout Yemen.The Saudi coalition air force destroyed 345 health center hospitals completely destroyed or partially destroyed. Of these, 4 hospitals are run by Doctors Without Borders and about 45% of hospitals and health centers have stopped working because of the blockade. Health work in Yemen is only 55% operational and they are overwhelmed by the spread of epidemiological, psychological and physical diseases.

VB:Right before the talks in Sweden, some injured Yemenis were reported to have been allowed to fly out. How many were able to fly out?

Dr YaH:The 200,000 people who suffer from these physical diseases, such as cancer, heart, kidneys, bone etc have been collectively punished by the coalition of aggression’s refusal to allow them to travel. 28,000 have died as a result. The World Health Organisation and the UN expressed a willingness to conduct two trips per month, 100 patients each trip. Those who managed to travel before the peace talks are the war wounded, whether fighters from the frontlines or the civilians injured in Saudi bombing raids. No more than 50 such patients have been able to leave for treatment and one trip was organised as a prerequisite for the Sana’a delegation to participate in the “peace” talks. 50,000 injured are still waiting for permission to travel for treatment, thousands of them with permanent disabilities.

VB:What is needed most in terms of Humanitarian Aid? What is actually being given in adequate quantities?

Dr YaH: The Yemeni people do not require any assistance actually. They only require that the blockade and siege is lifted and the aggression stopped and that they be allowed to live in peace. We will regulate our own problems peacefully and easily. This is the most important demand from the Yemeni people.

VB: Who is ultimately responsible for the genocide in Yemen?

Dr YaH: Those who are officially responsible for the genocide in Yemen are those who own the money of mass destruction with which they buy weapons of mass destruction from the countries of mass destruction endorsed by the United Nations of mass destruction and met with global silence while Yemen is being destroyed. The American regime is mainly responsible, the UN and the Security Council follow closely as legal cover for the crimes committed by the US and its Saudi and UAE partners enabling them to commit the atrocities against the Yemeni people. Saudi Arabia and UAE are number three in the responsibility league table and then you have, as number four, the fugitive, illegitimate President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his political team at the UN or working as ambassadors in other countries.

Finally, I always welcome you and your questions at any time and whatever the questions without reservation, and thank you deeply for your constant solidarity with us. People are two types (either your brother in religion or your counterpart in creation) and we live in one land and one race and live one life and our destiny is one … all respect to you and the people of the world.

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Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist, peace activist, photographer and associate editor at 21st Century Wire. Vanessa was a finalist for one of the most prestigious journalism awards – the 2017 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism – whose winners have included the likes of Robert Parry in 2017, Patrick Cockburn, Robert Fisk, Nick Davies and the Bureau for Investigative Journalism team. Please support her work at her Patreon account.

Cover image – Sara, a 10-year-old at al Thawra hospital in Hodeidah, Yemen, is half paralyzed by diphtheria, an illness that can be prevented by vaccination. She subsequently had to leave the hospital because of the violence. UNICEF/Touma/Yemen/2018

Episode #260 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on Dec 16th 2018 with special guest host Patrick Henningsen broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR)…

LISTEN LIVE ON THIS PAGE AT THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULED SHOW TIMES:

5pm-7pm UK Time | 12pm-2pm ET (US) | 9am-11am PT (US)

This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE with host Patrick Henningsen bringing you all the top stories from the US, Europe and internationally. This week we’re joined in-studio by UK Column editor Mike Robinson, for this week’s news round-up including the latest Integrity Initiative leak, more widespread Russiaphobia in US and Britain and more discovery from the Integrity Initiative leaks, along with Macron’s meltdown as France’s Yellow Vests spread across Europe, and much more. In the second hour, we’ll connect best-selling author, Jay Dyer, from Jay’s Analysis, to discuss his new book Esoteric Hollywood 2, and also new revelations of CIA involvement in splitting the Russian Orthodox Church. This week, we’ll also pay tribute to passing of the inspirational author and godfather of the alternative media, William Blum, who passed away this week at the age of 85. As part of our tribute to William, his life and his great body of work, we’ll also replay rare conversation between William Blum and Patrick Henningsen which aired on Jan 15, 2017 just before the inauguration of President Trump – an interview which is as relevant today. Enjoy the show…

]]>https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/16/episode-260-wests-integrity-deficit-tribute-to-william-blum-guest-jay-dyer/feed/0SUNDAY SCREENING: ‘How Wealth Becomes Power’ (2018)https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/16/sunday-screening-how-wealth-becomes-power-2018/
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/16/sunday-screening-how-wealth-becomes-power-2018/#respondSun, 16 Dec 2018 14:33:10 +0000https://21stcenturywire.com/?p=123038SUNDAY SCREENING | This film takes a close look at the lives and mentality of the ultra rich, and evaluates their own worldview.]]>Our weekly documentary film curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE.

Germany is one of the world’s richest countries, but inequality is on the rise. While the power elite are pulling ahead, the poor are falling behind at an ever more rapid rate. Meanwhile, the middle classes is shrinking at an ever-increasing rate too. Hard work no longer leads to advancement. This trend is being reflected across Europe and North America too. Here, the filmmakers interview leading researchers and experts on the topic, and also shadow members of the super class, including the German real estate mogul, Christoph Gröner, who believes that, “Entrepreneurs are more powerful than politicians, because we’re more independent.” This film takes a close look at the lives and mentality of the ultra rich, and evaluates their own narrow worldview, as well as how they view themselves as fit to rule over the rest of the population. Watch:

]]>https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/16/sunday-screening-how-wealth-becomes-power-2018/feed/0Italy Avoids EU Sanctions, But Will Austerity Attract the Yellow Vests?https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/16/italy-avoids-eu-sanctions-but-will-austerity-attract-the-yellow-vests/
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/16/italy-avoids-eu-sanctions-but-will-austerity-attract-the-yellow-vests/#respondSun, 16 Dec 2018 14:23:03 +0000https://21stcenturywire.com/?p=12307421WIRE | The ‘Yellow Vest’ movement in France is threatening to spill into neighboring Italy, but will it be anti-Italian government movement or anti-EU movement? ]]>Italy is attempting to avoid EU sanctions by agreeing to peg its budget deficit. The country’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, announced cutting the target from 2.4% to 2.04%.

“We have recovered some financial resources, we have been very prudent,” Conte said after a meeting Jean Claude Juncker on Wednesday. “And we are now using these financial resources for this negotiation.”

However, talk of austerity might also trigger a Yellow Vest movement in Italy. If the Yellow Vest phenomenon in France spills into neighboring Italy, will it be anti-Italian government movement or anti-EU movement?

]]>https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/16/italy-avoids-eu-sanctions-but-will-austerity-attract-the-yellow-vests/feed/0US Senate Votes on Yemen as Brutal Proxy War Rages Onhttps://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/15/us-senate-votes-on-yemen-as-brutal-proxy-war-rages-on/
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/15/us-senate-votes-on-yemen-as-brutal-proxy-war-rages-on/#respondSat, 15 Dec 2018 17:50:03 +0000https://21stcenturywire.com/?p=12293921WIRE | Will anything really change? Why now?]]>In a largely symbolic event, the U.S. Senate voted to direct President Trump to remove American military forces from “hostilities in or affecting Yemen” by passing S.J.Res.54 earlier this week.

The resolution, which passed 56-41, invoked the War Powers Act of 1973. A small group of Senate Republicans voted in favor, including Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Arizona’s Jeff Flake.

Notably, the resolution also contained the following exceptions:

“[…] except United States Armed Forces engaged in operations directed at al Qaeda or associated forces”

“Nothing in this joint resolution shall be construed to influence or disrupt any military operations and cooperation with Israel.”

These two exceptions in particular call into the question the true intent of the public vote. Will anything really change? Why now?

The recent Khashoggi case appears to have given Congress a reason to show disapproval, when normally it would not, with respect to U.S. intervention in foreign wars. Led mostly by Democrats, the vote underscores a clear ‘rebuke’ of President Trump – a strategy the Democrats will continue to employ when they take over the House of Representatives in January. In lockstep fashion, the mainstream press was quick to characterize the vote as an ‘end to military aid in Yemen’ but whether that will actually happen remains to be seen. It likely will not.

And in a bizarre twist, the resolution conspicuously avoids naming the United Kingdom as a co-participant in the brutal proxy war on Yemen:

“Whereas Congress has not declared war with respect to, or provided a specific statutory authorization for, the conflict between military forces led by Saudi Arabia, including forces from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, and Sudan (the Saudi-led coalition) […]”

]]>https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/15/us-senate-votes-on-yemen-as-brutal-proxy-war-rages-on/feed/0CONNECT THE DOTS: Crack Cocaine, Contras and the CIAhttps://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/15/connect-the-dots-crack-cocaine-contras-and-the-cia/
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/15/connect-the-dots-crack-cocaine-contras-and-the-cia/#respondSat, 15 Dec 2018 15:04:24 +0000https://21stcenturywire.com/?p=12256521WIRE | The story of a CIA drugs pipeline used to support the Nicaraguan Contras - which also raked billions in cocaine profits. ]]>In 1996, investigative journalist Gary Webb discovered links between Nicaragua’s Contra rebels and the CIA’s cocaine drug-running operation in the 1980’s. Webb wrote the Dark Alliance series for the San Jose Mercury News which exposed the CIA’s Contra rebels cocaine shipping into the US, which ended up as crack cocaine flooding cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco – and with the proceeds from the sales of those drugs being funneled back to fund the Contra militants. Webb also uncovered the Mena, Arkansas connection during the time that Bill Clinton was governor of that state.

This 1996 interview with Gary Webb took place after his “Dark Alliance” newspaper series made waves across the country for piecing together the puzzle of the US crack epidemic.

The pipeline of CIA backed drug smuggling into the country and money smuggling out of the country to support the Nicaraguan Contras was wide open from the mid 1970s on, with players using everything from their shoes to freighters to move cocaine.

Webb was widely smeared by the CIA’s favorite newspapers (The New York Times, the Washington Post, The LA Times) shortly after this interview.

He was eventually vindicated, but not before his career was destroyed. He was found dead of an apparent suicide in 2004. The price of being a whistleblower? Watch:

]]>https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/15/connect-the-dots-crack-cocaine-contras-and-the-cia/feed/0Financial Investigators Testify That Clinton Foundation Operated as ‘Foreign Agent’https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/14/financial-investigators-testify-that-clinton-foundation-operated-as-foreign-agent/
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/14/financial-investigators-testify-that-clinton-foundation-operated-as-foreign-agent/#respondFri, 14 Dec 2018 16:41:28 +0000https://21stcenturywire.com/?p=12289821WIRE + Sara A. Carter | The potential rap sheet is long and storied, but will any of it ever be prosecuted?]]>In explosive new testimony to the U.S. Congressional House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a team of financial investigators raised serious questions about the legal status of the Clinton Foundation – presenting evidence that alleges the organization operated as a ‘foreign agent’ and does not qualify as a 501c3 charity.

PAY-FOR-PLAY: The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars in donations from the very Gulf states it knew were funding ISIS and Al Nusra terrorists.

These and other damaging revelations swirling around the foundation are against the political backdrop of a Republican majority that will cede control to Democrats come January. Translation: Unless some dramatic action happens between now and recess, we’re not likely to see this evidence pursued any further by the Clinton’s political firewall embedded in the new Congress.

Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, also testified and tweeted this out after the hearing:

The Clinton Foundation operated as a foreign agent ‘early in its life’ and ‘throughout it’s existence’ and did not operate as a 501c3 charitable foundation as required by its and is not entitled to its status as a nonprofit, alleged two highly qualified forensic investigators, accompanied by three other investigators, said in explosive testimony Thursday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

John Moynihan and Lawerence W. Doyle, both graduates of the Catholic Jesuit College of the Holy Cross and former expert forensic government investigators, gave their shocking testimony before congress based on a nearly two-year investigation into the foundation’s work both nationally and internationally. They were assisted by three other highly trained experts in taxation law and financial forensic investigations. The forensic investigators stressed that they obtained all the documentation on the foundation legally and through Freedom of Information Request Acts from the IRS and other agencies.

The investigation clearly demonstrates that the foundation was not a charitable organization per se, but in point of fact was a closely held family partnership

Former Utah U.S. Attorney General John Huber, who resigned when he was appointed by former Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the Clinton Foundation and the issues surrounding the approval to sell 20 percent of U.S. Uranium assets to Russia, declined to attend the hearing. Chairman Mark Meadows, R-NC, who oversaw the hearing stated that it was disappointing that Huber declined, leaving Congress in the dark regarding the DOJ’s investigation.

Investigations into the Clinton Foundation have always been plagued by politics but Moynihan wanted to make clear in his opening statement that this investigation was one of many his firm has conducted on nonprofits and had nothing to do with politics.

Doyle and Moynihan have amassed 6,000 documents in their nearly two-year investigation through their private firm MDA Analytics LLC. The documents were turned over more than a year and a half ago to the IRS, according to John Solomon, who first published the report last week in The Hill.

The investigation clearly demonstrates that the foundation was not a charitable organization per se, but in point of fact was a closely held family partnership,” said Doyle, who formerly worked on Wall Street and has been involved with finance for the last ten years conducting investigations. “As such, it was governed in a fashion in which it sought in large measure to advance the personal interests of its principles as detailed within the financial analysis of this submission and further confirmed within the supporting documentation and evidence section.”

]]>https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/14/financial-investigators-testify-that-clinton-foundation-operated-as-foreign-agent/feed/0FLASHBACK: Vietnam War and The Heroin Epidemic, and a Case of Déjà Vuhttps://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/14/flashback-vietnam-war-and-the-heroin-epidemic-and-a-case-of-deja-vu/
https://21stcenturywire.com/2018/12/14/flashback-vietnam-war-and-the-heroin-epidemic-and-a-case-of-deja-vu/#respondFri, 14 Dec 2018 08:37:07 +0000https://21stcenturywire.com/?p=12255921WIRE | The effects of these illegal clandestine operations continue to plague American society. ]]>It’s a case of déjà vu The parallels between US military conquests in Vietnam and Afghanistan are uncanny. Afghanistan has since overtaken Vietnam as the longest war in American history. During both conflicts, narcotics production spiked to record levels, as did the availability of cheap heroin on the streets of North America and Europe. Notice how the mainstream media refuses to connect the dots. It’s not merely correlation – it’s causation.

The question still remains: who started it?

In previous years, 21WIRE has reported on the CIA’s infamous trafficking operation, Air America, in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, a formula which has been mirrored operation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia and El Salvador – to name only a few.

The effects of these illegal clandestine operations have been devastating on American society.

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In New York City alone, over 40,000 soldiers who were addicted to heroin in Vietnam came home with raging drug habits. They were unemployed, abandoned by the government, and well trained in maniacal violence.

It is any wonder violent crime and murder rates spiked in the city in the 60s and 70s?

The next big spike came in the late 1980s and early 1990s when abundant cheap cocaine came up from Latin America and was marketed in the form of crack.